INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN
Nov. 24, 2005 accident
CBC News Online | January 16, 2006

Pte. Braun Scott Woodfield
Cpl. Shane Dean Jones
Pte. Paul Schavo
Sgt. Tony Nelson McIver
Nov. 24, 2005 accident

Cpl. James Edward McDonald
Killed
Pte. Braun Scott Woodfield, 24, Eastern Passage N.S. & Victoria

Injured
Sgt. Tony Nelson Mciver, 31, Fredericton
Cpl. James Edward McDonald, 32, Pembroke, Ont.
Cpl. Shane Dean Jones, 30, White Rock, B.C.
Pte. Paul Schavo, 24, London, Ont.

One soldier was killed and four were injured when an armoured vehicle rolled over on the highway to Kandahar on Nov. 24, 2005. The Department of National Defence said the accident involved an LAV-3 vehicle. The men were from Golf Company, Second Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (2 RCR), stationed in Gagetown, N.B.

The men in the other two incidents were in Afghanistan as part of Operation Athena, which is Canada's commitment to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

The Department of National Defence said that an armoured personnel carrier, a LAV-3 turned over while on routine patrol on Highway 45, the main road to Kandahar, about 45 kilometres northeast of the city. The Canadian Forces was running convoys from Kabul to Kandahar as part of the redeployment to the southern part of the country.

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QUICK FACTS:
Capital: Kabul

Area: 647,500 km sq. (same size as Manitoba)

Population: 28,513,000 (2004)

Head of State: Hamid Karzai

Unemployment: 78%

GDP (2003): $20 billion US (est.)

Exports to Canada (2003): $618,889

Imports from Canada (2003): $9 million

Median Age: 17.5

Life expectancy at birth: 42.46

Ethnic groups: Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%

(Source: CIA World Fact Book, Government of Canada)
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